culture
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culture/ˈkʌltʃə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
■ a refined understanding or appreciation of this.
- 2 the customs, ideas, and social behaviour of a particular people or group.
- 3 Biology the cultivation of bacteria, tissue cells, etc. in an artificial medium containing nutrients.
■ a preparation of cells obtained in such a way.
- 4 the cultivation of plants.
■ [in combination] denoting cultivation or husbandry: aviculture.
– origin C17 (denoting a cultivated piece of land): the noun from Fr. culture or directly from L. cultura ‘growing, cultivation’; the verb from obs. Fr. culturer or med. L. culturare, both based on L. colere (see cultivate).
'culture' also found in these Oxford entries:
acculturate
- Acheulian
- adultescent
- Afrocentric
- agar
- apiculture
- Arabism
- archaic
- art
- assimilate
- Aurignacian
- aviculture
- axenic
- Azilian
- Babylon
- barbarism
- Basket Maker
- b-boy
- broth
- Capsian
- cell line
- Cham
- classical
- clone
- Clovis
- critical theory
- cross-dating
- cultivate
- cultural
- culturati
- culture shock
- culture vulture
- Cymric
- DCMS
- diffusion
- Egyptology
- eidos
- enculturation
- ethnocentric
- ethos
- Eurocentric
- fleadh
- folkish
- folksy
- Folsom
- Gaelic
- garbology
- geometric
- Gravettian
